Four young girls had to be rescued from the banks of the River Mersey after being cut off by a landslide. Emergency services were called to Oglet Shore, near Liverpool John Lennon Airport, at around 1.45pm today.
Pictures taken at the scene showed coastguards and firefighters from Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service helping the girls into a lifeboat. A witness said: “Today as the snow is melting and the rain coming down, the cliff face had washed away causing a landslide, trapping the girls on the edge of the shoreline as the tide rapidly turned and came in fast.”
A HM Coastguard spokesman said: “HM Coastguard have been responding to an incident at Oglet Shore involving four people following a cliff collapse today, Sunday January 5.
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“Alerted shortly before 1.45pm, Wirral and Flint Coastguard Rescue Teams were tasked. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service and North West Ambulance Service were also in attendance. The four individuals were extracted from danger and taken to a place of safety for further medical assessment.”
A Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “We got the call at 1.45pm and it was a report of four people stuck in mud close to Hale Head Lighthouse, which is the area at the bottom of the runway near John Lennon Airport.
“We sent one fire engine from Widnes, one from Penketh, and one from Warrington, three pumps, and an aerial ladder platform from Lymm. It looks like (the people) were then picked up by the Marine One fire rescue boat that is based at the Pier Head. The coastguard mud rescue team was also involved.”
A Merseyside Fire and Rescue service spokesman confirmed crews had been tasked to assist Cheshire services, and had picked up the four girls in their rescue boat before ferrying them back to shore.
The girls were then checked by ambulance crews, but no action was taken and they were conveyed home with “no harm done”, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said.